"My Fair Lady My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"", with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady. The original Broadway and London shows starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success. It set a record for the longest run of any show on Broadway up to that time. It was followed by"
"The Lady of Shalott ""The Lady of Shalott"" is a lyrical ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). It tells the story of a young noble woman imprisoned in a tower on an island near Camelot. She can only watch the outside world through a mirror and must weave what she sees. She has heard that if she looks at Camelot directly, she will be cursed. One of the poet's best-known works, its vivid medieval romanticism and enigmatic symbolism inspired many painters, especially the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers. Like his other early poems – ""Sir Lancelot and Queen"
"the period 1924 to 1978. A review in ""The Gramophone"" of one of his 1957 albums containing recordings of his old ""concert party"" songs commented, ""what a fine voice he has and how well he can use it – diction, phrasing, range and the interpretative insight of the artist"". Stanley Holloway Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, humourist, singer, poet and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in ""My Fair Lady"". He was also"
"Stanley Holloway Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, humourist, singer, poet and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in ""My Fair Lady"". He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career. Born in London, Holloway pursued a career as a clerk in his teen years. He made early stage appearances before infantry service in the First World War, after which he had"
"Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars dedicated to him in 1995. He was buried in the Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California. Frederick Loewe Frederick Loewe (, originally German ""Friedrich (Fritz) Löwe"" ; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including ""My Fair Lady"" and ""Camelot"", both of which were made into films. Loewe was born in Berlin, Germany, to Viennese parents Edmond and Rosa Loewe. His father was a noted Jewish operetta star who performed throughout Europe and"
"Spring Come not too Soon, 1947; The Christmas Story, 1948; The Bailey and the Bell, 1950; Horses, 1951; Einfaches Lied, 1955, unpublished; My Lady Comes, 1957; Three Hokku, 1958 Orchestral: ""Poema"", 1922; ""Stars"", 1927 (New York, 1963); ""Sand"", 1928 (New York, 1963); ""Castellana"", 2 pianos, orchestra, 1930; ""Dirge"", 1931; ""Axiom"", 1932; ""American Piece"", 1933; ""Coulennes"", 1936; ""Potomac River"", 1940; ""Paean"", 1941; ""Agreeable Overture"", 1948; ""Rock"", 1954 (New York, 1963); ""The Holy Baby of the Madonna"", 1958 Chamber music: Fugue, string quartet, 1922; Sonata, D, 1922 (New York, 1962); Ballade Fantasque, 1927; 3 Restaurant Pieces, 1927; Little Suite, string quartet, 1928;"
"Laura Lemon Laura Gertrude Lemon (15 October 1866 – 18 August 1924) was a Canadian composer and songwriter who lived and worked in England. She also used the pseudonyms Austin Fleming and Ian Macdonald. Lemon was mostly known for composing pieces for violin and piano such as ""Three Moravian Dances"", which was dedicated to the Canadian Violinist Kathleen Parlow. However she also noted for her song literature. 'My Ain Folk, a ballad of home', was at one time one of the best-known songs by a Canadian composer. Lemon was born in Guelph, Ontario. Her father was Andrew Lemon, Queen's Council,"
"of his philological interests into his fairy world. Goblin Feet ""Goblin Feet"" is a poem written in 1915 by J. R. R. Tolkien for Edith Mary Bratt, his wife-to-be, which was published in ""Oxford poetry 1915"" before being reprinted in anthologies such as ""The Book of Fairy Poetry"" (1920): it thus marks Tolkien's first appearance in the capacity of a writer for children. His fiancée, had expressed her liking for “spring and flowers and trees, and little elfin people”, and the poem with its rather twee references to “the tiny horns of enchanted leprechauns...their little happy feet” reflects her preferences."
"Goblin Feet ""Goblin Feet"" is a poem written in 1915 by J. R. R. Tolkien for Edith Mary Bratt, his wife-to-be, which was published in ""Oxford poetry 1915"" before being reprinted in anthologies such as ""The Book of Fairy Poetry"" (1920): it thus marks Tolkien's first appearance in the capacity of a writer for children. His fiancée, had expressed her liking for “spring and flowers and trees, and little elfin people”, and the poem with its rather twee references to “the tiny horns of enchanted leprechauns...their little happy feet” reflects her preferences. Tolkien himself would later wish that “the unhappy"
"George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72), and ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype"
"""The Discontented Raindrop,"" ""Little Bed Cap"" (Squirrel), ""The Violet and Nutshell,"" ""The Rose Club,"" ""How the Fairies Came"" (Rainbow colors), ""Dear Little Brownie"" (Chestnut), ""Little Yellow and His Brothers and Sisters"" (Maple leaf). She married George Austin Coolidge in 1872. A daughter, Emelyn Lincoln Coolidge (b. Boston, August 9, 1873), was a pediatrician. Coolidge died on either 17 or 18 May, 1902 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after having been rushed there from Washington, D. C. suffering from acute bronchitis. Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge (1849 - 1902) was an American philanthropist, author and reformer."
"T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems are those written for Faber and Faber's series of ""Ariel Poems"". All but ""Triumphal March"" also appear in his book ""Collected Poems: 1909–1962"" under the heading ""Ariel Poems"". In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber & Gwyer, Ltd., after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" (1915), ""Gerontion"" (1920) and ""The Waste Land"" (1922). In 1927, Eliot was asked by his employer, Geoffrey Faber, one of the partners in"
"of My Fair Lady at Drury Lane, when Sam Lewis was musical director. Sam (a viola player) subsequently went to Israel where he still lives, and he remembers Vernon as a real 'gentleman' . In the United States, he is perhaps best known as the singing voice of Josef Locke, who was played by Ned Beatty in the film Hear My Song. Midgley is married to the New Zealand soprano Alexandra Gordon, with one son and one daughter. He teaches voice at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Vernon is featured, along with his sister Maryetta, on the song"
"Lorenz Hart Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include ""Blue Moon,"" ""Mountain Greenery,"" ""The Lady Is a Tramp,"" ""Manhattan,"" ""Where or When,"" ""Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,"" ""Falling in Love with Love,"" ""Have You Met Miss Jones?,"" ""My Funny Valentine,"" ""I Could Write a Book"", ""This Can't Be Love"", ""With a Song in My Heart"", ""It Never Entered My Mind"", and ""Isn't It Romantic?"". Hart was born in Harlem, the elder of two sons, to Jewish immigrant parents, Max"
"C. Rossetti, 1913 ""The Daisy Lullaby."" [Two-part song.] Words by M. Byron, 1908 ""The Dancers."" Two-Part Song for female voices, with Pianoforte accompaniment, the words by M. C. Gillington, 1905 ""A Dirge for the Year."" Words by P. B. Shelley, 1893 ""The Discontented Bunny."" Action Song, words by M. C. Gillington, 1911 ""The Dustman."" Song, the words by M. Byron, 1904 ""Eight Variations on an original Theme"" for pianoforte, violin, viola and cello. Op. 11, 1893 ""Elfin Sleep Song"" [Three- part song], etc., 1899 ""The Fairy Cobbler."" Two-Part Song for female voices, words by M. C. Gillington, 1898 ""The Fairy"
"""La Belle Dame sans Merci"", ""Ode to a Nightingale"", ""To Autumn"". Percy Shelley, known to contemporaries for his radical politics and association with figures such as Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, daughter of radical thinkers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, was the third major romantic poet of the second generation. Generally regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, Shelley is perhaps best known for poems such as ""Ozymandias"", ""Ode to the West Wind"", ""To a Skylark"" and ""Adonaïs"", an elegy written on the death of Keats. Mary Shelley (1797–1851) is remembered as the author of ""Frankenstein"""
"""The Sonnets to Orpheus"", English and French rhymed and metered translations, trilingual German-English-French edition, Editions www.ressouvenances.fr , 2017 Sonnets to Orpheus The Sonnets to Orpheus () are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). It was first published the following year. Rilke, who is ""widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets,"" wrote the cycle in a period of three weeks experiencing what he described a ""savage creative storm."" Inspired by the news of the death of Wera Ouckama Knoop (1900–1919), a playmate of Rilke's daughter Ruth, he"
"London, ""The Crimson Petal and the White"", published in 2002. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal ""Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"" is a sonnet poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was first published in 1847, in ""The Princess: A Medley"". The poem has been set to music several times, including settings by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter, Ned Rorem, Mychael Danna and Paul Mealor. It also appeared as a song in the 2004 film ""Vanity Fair"" (based on Thackeray's novel from 1848), sung by the character Becky Sharp. Writer and poet Oscar Wilde included a reference to Tennyson's poem in the last"
"with double tongue""). English translation by W.G. Thomas (1859) Elfenlied Elfenlied (German ""fairy song"") is the conventional title of a 1780 poem by Goethe, and of a later (c. 1830) poem by Eduard Mörike (and of their various respective adaptations to music). Goethe's poem was written in 1780, in a letter sent to Charlotte von Stein, without a title, but introduced by ""Die Elfen sangen"" ""the elves/fairies sang""; the title ""Elfenlied"" (and variants) were only set in editions of Goethe's collected poems (titled ""A Midnight Fairy Song"" by Thomas 1859). Goethe's poem is Romantic, invoking the image of a fairy-dance"
"Lady Clara Vere de Vere ""Lady Clara Vere de Vere"" is an English poem written by Alfred Tennyson, part of his collected ""Poems"" published in 1842. The poem is about a lady in a family of aristocrats, and includes numerous references to nobility, such as to earls or coats of arms. One such line from the poem goes, ""Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood."" This line gave the title to the film ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"". Lewis Carroll's poem ""Echoes"" is based on ""Lady Clare Vere de Vere"". Tennyson spent some time as a"
"Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal ""Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"" is a sonnet poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was first published in 1847, in ""The Princess: A Medley"". The poem has been set to music several times, including settings by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter, Ned Rorem, Mychael Danna and Paul Mealor. It also appeared as a song in the 2004 film ""Vanity Fair"" (based on Thackeray's novel from 1848), sung by the character Becky Sharp. Writer and poet Oscar Wilde included a reference to Tennyson's poem in the last paragraph of his essay ""The Decay of Lying"": ""The final"
"Floating Down to Camelot Floating Down to Camelot is a campus novel by David Benedictus published in 1985 and set in Cambridge. The title is drawn from Tennyson's poem ""The Lady of Shalott"", in which while floating down to Camelot the Lady of Shalott apparently dies of a broken heart, caused by the rejection of Sir Lancelot. Benedictus began to write the novel while he was a fellow commoner at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a Judith E. Wilson visiting Fellow in the University. When Bill, an impoverished Cambridge student, is even unable to pay for his mother's funeral, his thoughts"
"of the themes and textual content for which the original content had been so scorned. The Maid of Orleans (poem) The Maid of Orleans () is a satirical poem by François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name, Voltaire. It was first published in 1899, but Voltaire had written it over a century beforehand; while he had started writing the text in 1730, he never completed it. It was translated into English by W. H. Ireland. Voltaire was undoubtedly one of the most controversial writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment Age, and ""The Maid of Orleans"" was also certainly one"
"Frederick Loewe Frederick Loewe (, originally German ""Friedrich (Fritz) Löwe"" ; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including ""My Fair Lady"" and ""Camelot"", both of which were made into films. Loewe was born in Berlin, Germany, to Viennese parents Edmond and Rosa Loewe. His father was a noted Jewish operetta star who performed throughout Europe and in North and South America; he starred as Count Danilo in the 1906 Berlin production of ""The Merry Widow"". Loewe grew up in Berlin and attended"
"advice on how to navigate Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. In 1923, Friedland joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert Lyrics by Edgar Allan Woolf Anatole Friedland Anatole Friedland, also spelled as Anatol Friedland and Anato Friedland, (March 21, 1881 – July 24, 1938) was a composer, songwriter, vaudeville performer, and Broadway producer during the 1900s. He is most-known for composing songs with lyricist L. Wolfe Gilbert. Their most popular songs include, ""My Sweet Adair"" (1915), ""Are You From Heaven?"" (1917), and ""My Own Iona"" (1916). Friedland was born on March 21, in"
"Charlotte Elliott Charlotte Elliott (18 March 1789 – 22 September 1871) was an English poet, hymn writer, and editor. She is best known by two hymns, ""Just As I Am"" and ""Thy will be done"". Elliott edited ""Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book"" (1834–59) and ""The Invalid's Hymn book"", 6th edition, 1854. To this latter collection, she contributed 112 hymns including ""Just As I Am, without one plea"", a hymn dated 1836, which was translated into almost every living language of the day. In spite of being raised in a Christian home, she reflected on her conflicts and doubts and was unsure"
"Dan Almagor Dan Almagor (born 1935) is an Israeli playwright who has adapted and translated over a hundred plays for the Hebrew stage, including Shakespeare's ""The Comedy of Errors"", ""As You Like It"", ""Fiddler on the Roof,"" ""The King and I,"" ""My Fair Lady"" and ""Guys and Dolls"". Almagor (born Dan Shmuel Elblinger) was born in Ramat Gan, Israel, but grew up in Rehovot. His father was an agronomist who left Warsaw for Palestine in 1923. His early songs, such as ""A Ballad for the Medic"" and ""Kol Ha’Kavod"", celebrated Israeli macho culture and military heroism, but much of his"
"literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels ""by a landslide"". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72),"
"A Dream of Fair Women A Dream of Fair Women is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was written in 1833, though republished and heavily changed in its 1842 republication. ""A Dream of Fair Women"" was originally titled 'Legend of Fair Women'. The poem was revised in most versions published between 1833 and 1853, and has been described as a masterpiece. The opening excerpt of the poem is: ""As when a man, that sails in a balloon, Downlooking sees the solid shining ground. Stream from beneath him in the broad blue noon, Tilth, hamlet, mead and mound."" ""A Dream"
"""Ballads and Other Poems"" in 1842. The title of ""Excelsior"" was reportedly inspired by the state seal of New York, which bears the Latin motto ""Excelsior"". Longfellow had seen it earlier on a scrap of newspaper. Longfellow explained the repeated title as from the Latin, ""Scopus meus excelsior est"" (""my goal is higher""). Biographer Charles Calhoun suggested the Alpine setting was an autobiographical reference to the poet's then-unsuccessful wooing of Frances Appleton, daughter of industrialist Nathan Appleton. The popularity of ""Excelsior"" inspired many parodies, adaptations, and references in other media. The poem was set to music as a duet for"
"Anatole Friedland Anatole Friedland, also spelled as Anatol Friedland and Anato Friedland, (March 21, 1881 – July 24, 1938) was a composer, songwriter, vaudeville performer, and Broadway producer during the 1900s. He is most-known for composing songs with lyricist L. Wolfe Gilbert. Their most popular songs include, ""My Sweet Adair"" (1915), ""Are You From Heaven?"" (1917), and ""My Own Iona"" (1916). Friedland was born on March 21, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Some sources claim his year of birth is 1881, while others list it as 1888. He used March 21, 1884 on his June 21, 1922 passport application. Friedland's early"
"of Fair Women"" was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's 1384 work ""The Legend of Good Women""; both works feature Cleopatra and deal with the misfortunes of illustrious women. A Dream of Fair Women A Dream of Fair Women is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was written in 1833, though republished and heavily changed in its 1842 republication. ""A Dream of Fair Women"" was originally titled 'Legend of Fair Women'. The poem was revised in most versions published between 1833 and 1853, and has been described as a masterpiece. The opening excerpt of the poem is: ""As when a man,"
"Madame de La Carlière Madame de La Carlière, sub-titled ""On the inconsequence of public judgement of our actions,"" is a fable written by the French writer Denis Diderot in 1772, and published for the first time in 1798. Preceded by ""This is not a fable"" and followed by ""Supplement to the Voyage of Bougaineville"", it forms a triptych of moral fables written in 1772 that would appear in the Literary Correspondence in 1773. ""Madame de La Carlière"" takes its name from the mother of Sophie Volland, Élisabeth Françoise Brunel de La Carlière. In 1988, ""Madame de La Carlière"" was performed"